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2 days ago
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Venice Film Festival Lineup Announcement
Alberto Barbera will this morning announce the lineup for this year's Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 27-September 6. You can follow the announcement livestream below. The festival has already set La Grazia, the latest feature from Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, to open the event. The film starring Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti will have its world premiere screening on Wednesday, 27 August in the Sala Grande. More from Deadline Venice Critics' Week Line-Up Features Julia Jackman's '100 Nights Of Hero' Starring Charli XCX & Emma Corrin Venice Juries: Fernanda Torres & Mohammad Rasoulof Set For Main Competition Jury; Julia Ducournau & Charlotte Wells Named As Horizons & First Film Presidents Doug Liman To Debut Google-Backed XR Thriller 'Asteroid' In Venice Immersive + Full Line-Up With Edward Berger Short La Grazia, written and directed by Sorrentino. Very little about the film's plot is known, but sources close to the film have told Deadline that the film follows the final days of a fictional Italian Presidency. The feature is a Fremantle film produced by The Apartment, Numero 10, and PiperFilm, which will distribute in Italy. Mubi owns worldwide rights, excluding Italy. The Match Factory is handling international sales. Elsewhere, Kim Novak will receive the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. On the main competition jury, previously announced jury president Alexander Payne, will be joined by French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé; Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero; Romanian director, writer and producer Cristian Mungiu; Iranian director and writer Mohammad Rasoulof; Brazilian actress, writer and screenwriter Fernanda Torres; and Chinese actress Zhao Tao. In the Venice Critics' Week sidebar, Julia Jackman's 100 Nights Of Hero will have its debut screening. The film stars Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe, Nicholas Galitzine, Charli XCX, Richard E. Grant, Amir El-Masry, and Felicity Jones. The film will close the Critics' Week sidebar. Follow our live list of the announced films below. Best of Deadline Everything We Know About 'The Devil Wears Prada 2' 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
Gulf Today
05-07-2025
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Paolo Sorrentino's 'La Grazia' to open Venice Film Festival
Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino will open this year's Venice Film Festival with his new movie "La Grazia", organisers said on Friday. Sorrentino, 55, is known for films such as "Il Divo", "The Great Beauty" and "The Hand of God", a deeply personal movie about losing his parents as a teenager, which took the runner-up Grand Jury Prize at the 2021 festival. "La Grazia" ("Grace"), which Sorrentino also wrote, will screen in competition at this year's event, which kicks off on August 27 and takes place on the Venice Lido, a thin barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon. It stars his longtime collaborator Toni Servillo and actress Anna Ferzetti. Little is known about the film. Sorrentino has previously been quoted as saying he and Servillo wanted to make a Francois Truffaut-style love story. "Paolo Sorrentino's return in competition comes with a film destined to leave its mark for its great originality and powerful relevance to the present time," the festival's artistic director Alberto Barbera said in a statement. The Naples-born Sorrentino debuted his first feature film, "One Man Up", in Venice in 2001. He has also previously presented the first episodes of his television series "The Young Pope" at the festival. "The Great Beauty", about an ageing writer's reflections on life and his search for meaning among Rome's idle rich, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014. Sorrentino picked up his second Oscar nomination for "The Hand of God". The 82nd Venice Film Festival will run from August 27 to September 6. Reuters
Vogue
05-07-2025
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Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia Will Open the 2025 Venice Film Festival
'I am very happy that the 82nd Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino,' said the festival's artistic director, Alberto Barbera, in a press release on Friday, July 4. The announcement delighted both him and the fans of the Neapolitan filmmaker. 'I like to recall that one of the most important and internationally acclaimed Italian auteurs made his debut right here at the Biennale di Venezia in 2001 with his first film, One Man Up, in my early years as the artistic director.' The director will thus return to the lagoon for the 82nd edition of the festival, which will take place from August 27 to September 6, 2025. Perhaps best known for 2014's Oscar-winning The Great Beauty, Sorrentino quickly established himself in the world of cinema. The son of a banker and a homemaker, he premiered his debut film at Italy's most prestigious film festival and was selected for the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival with only his second feature, The Consequences of Love (2005). For his latest project, titled La Grazia, Sorrentino reunites with actor Toni Servillo, a longtime collaborator. Servillo will star opposite Italian actress Anna Ferzetti. No synopsis has been revealed yet; all we know so far is that it will be a love story.
Yahoo
04-07-2025
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Paolo Sorrentino's ‘La Grazia' Set to Open Venice Film Festival
This year's Venice Film Festival will open with Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia. As the Oscar-winning director reteams with Toni Servillo, the opening night film — which translates to 'Grace' in English — will get its world premiere in competition on the lido on Wednesday, Aug. 27. While plot details remain unknown, Diamonds actor Anna Ferzetti will also star. More from The Hollywood Reporter La Roux Wants You to Know That Beyond Singing, She Also Writes, Produces, and Performs Her Music Monotony and a First-Time Actor Loom Large in Reintegration Drama 'Rain Fell on the Nothing New' As Oasis Kicks Off Their Reunion Tour, the Band Gives Fans Fresh Merch and Clothing Collabs 'I am very happy that the 82nd Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino,' said fest director Alberto Barbera. 'I like to recall that one of the most important and internationally acclaimed Italian auteurs made his debut right here at the Biennale di Venezia in 2001 with his first film, One Man Up, in my early years as the artistic director.' He continued: 'The relationship with the Venice Film Festival became consolidated over the years with the presentation out of competition of the first episodes in the series The Young Pope (seasons one and two) and, above all, with The Hand of God which, in 2021, won the Silver Lion-Grand Jury Prize.' 'Paolo Sorrentino's return in competition comes with a film destined to leave its mark for its great originality and powerful relevance to the present time,' he added, 'which the audiences of the Venice Film Festival will have the pleasure of discovering on opening night.' La Grazia, written and directed by Sorrentino, is a Fremantle film produced by The Apartment, a Fremantle Company, by Numero 10 and by PiperFilm that will distribute it in Italy. MUBI owns worldwide rights excluding Italy. The Match Factory is handling international sales. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts
Reuters
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Reuters
Paolo Sorrentino's 'La Grazia' to open Venice Film Festival
July 4 (Reuters) - Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino will open this year's Venice Film Festival with his new movie "La Grazia", organisers said on Friday. Sorrentino, 55, is known for films such as "Il Divo", "The Great Beauty" and "The Hand of God", a deeply personal movie about losing his parents as a teenager, which took the runner-up Grand Jury Prize at the 2021 festival. "La Grazia" ("Grace"), which Sorrentino also wrote, will screen in competition at this year's event, which kicks off on August 27 and takes place on the Venice Lido, a thin barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon. It stars his longtime collaborator Toni Servillo and actress Anna Ferzetti. Little is known about the film. Sorrentino has previously been quoted as saying he and Servillo wanted to make a Francois Truffaut-style love story. "Paolo Sorrentino's return in competition comes with a film destined to leave its mark for its great originality and powerful relevance to the present time," the festival's artistic director Alberto Barbera said in a statement. The Naples-born Sorrentino debuted his first feature film, "One Man Up", in Venice in 2001. He has also previously presented the first episodes of his television series "The Young Pope" at the festival. "The Great Beauty", about an ageing writer's reflections on life and his search for meaning among Rome's idle rich, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014. Sorrentino picked up his second Oscar nomination for "The Hand of God". The 82nd Venice Film Festival will run from August 27 to September 6.
